179,854Messages
9,130Senders
30Years
342mboxes

← back to listing · view thread

From:
To:
toaster oven
Cc:
Date:
Fri, 02 Dec 1994 16:52:03 EST
Subject:
Re: a kind word from autechre
Msg-Id:
<9412022152.AA23784@mercury.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To:
<Mailstrom.1.05.60407.15089.joroses@mail.utexas.edu>
Mbox:
idm.9412.gz
quoted 1 line fuck off trainspotter>> fuck off trainspotter
quoted 2 lines okay i have tried to figure this out but. . .>okay i have tried to figure this out but. . . >(flame-retardant suit--on)
quoted 3 lines *what is a trainspotter*? my guess is that it is someone who is able/thinks>*what is a trainspotter*? my guess is that it is someone who is able/thinks >they are able to recognize and attribute every sample/lyric/song they hear. >help?
the people from across the pond may be able to clarify this (i'm still not certain it's not a joke...) but a trainspotter is someone, in the uk i believe, who tries to spot every single car of every train in the isles. very strange. in terms of music, a trainspotter is someone who purchases compilations for a single remix they don't have, someone who purchases all formats of a single even though they have the same remixes or to get that one extre 'edit', someone who own every album by every side band of every member of a given group, someone who owns a copy of all the remix work done by a certain group, or someone who wishes that they fit into one of the categories above and is slowly starving themselves in order to do so. in short, if you're on this list, you're probably a trainspotter :) i'm not sure what autechre has against trainspotters, though i assume they mean really hard core trainspotters...not us innocent young fans... [fletcher] - [i'm not a trainspotter by i play one on tv]